Florida · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,383 to it, the largest being FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR ASSISTIVE SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY INC ($70,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC is better cushioned than half of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Florida Endowment Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Incportfolio match
- Fisher Island Philanthropic Fund Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 92% · 2018 88% · 2019 85% · 2020 87% · 2021 93% · 2022 93% · 2023 76% · 2024 84% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $18k → $10k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 56% · 2019 55% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 50% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Florida Endowment Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation Incshared fundersportfolio matchFL · backs 6 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fisher Island Philanthropic Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Claibourne F Foulds Fdn Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hsc Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Goody Two Shoes Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charles and Eleanor Knight Leigh Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sain-Orr and Royak-Deforest Steadman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McNally Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gus Machado Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Justice Project Incshared fundersFL · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- Florida Immigrant Coalition Incshared fundersFL · backs 4 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Center for Independent Living Of · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC?
- CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,383 to it, the largest being FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR ASSISTIVE SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY INC ($70,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $118,383 in grants to CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC?
- FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR ASSISTIVE SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY INC is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing